Last week I received a press release from my contact at Paragon Software (the makers of Hard Disk Manager). They have released a new product, NTFS for Mac OS X:
Paragon NTFS for Mac OS breaks the border between Windows and Mac OS, solving an important communication problem in their file systems
From now on you can enjoy the strong sides of both operating systems you choose on one and the same laptop or PC.
The product gives you:
1) Full read/write access to NTFS volumes
2) All NTFS versions support
3) Exceptional ease of use
4) High performance
5) Stability
For some time now Paragon has had an NTFS for Linux product and it appears that the Mac version builds on this (now that Mac OS X is based on a Unix\Linux kernel).
I haven’t tried the product, but if you are using a Mac and Windows (NT-based), then this may be a useful utility for you.
I got a press release the other day about Automatic Photo Sorter 1.0, software from Styopkin Software that scans for photos and uses the EXIF information to store the pictures in directories based on the date they were taken.
Automatic Photo Sorter 1.0 will benefit most any digital photo enthusiast, who takes lots of photos and saves them to the hard disk drive. Over the years, the computer accumulates hundreds of photos, and it’s only natural that the user wants to arrange them. Until now there has been no way to sort photos into folders automatically. Doing it manually will take much time and too many efforts. Fortunately, Styopkin Software has come up with Automatic Photo Sorter that will help you cope with the “too-many-unsorted-photos” problem.
I haven’t tried the software, but thought I would pass the information along. Styopkin Software also has several other utilities on their site that you may find useful.
This is a neat little tool I found recently that allows you to capture a screenshot (of a region, the desktop, or a window) and then use OCR (optical character recognition) to “extract” the text.
JOCR enables you to capture the image on the screen and convert the captured image to text. It is useful to revive the protected files whose text can not be copied. JOCR enables you to copy text from any files and images on the screen such as protected Web pages, PDF files, error messages. The program offers several capture modes.
JOCR requires Microsoft Office 2003 or higher version.
I have Microsoft Office 2003, and the program seemed to work fine. Depending on what image I was using, the recognition was better. As I said, it’s a neat utility, and is portable (there is nothing to install, you just run the executable). If you don’t like it, you can just delete it.
I haven’t tried this myself, but I recently heard about System Information for Windows. It is software that will take an inventory of the hardware and software on your computer, along with a lot of other useful information. The site describes it this way:
SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner…
SIW is a standalone utility that does not require installation (Portable Freeware) - one less installed program on your PC as well the fact that you can run the program directly from an USB flash drive, from a floppy, from a network drive or from a domain login script.
Since there is nothing to install, it is easy to download and try.
The other day I read a Reuters article about a web site that has a goal to “help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. This is made possible by the sponsors who advertise on this site.” I’m not sure how it all works, but a word appears and you are supposed to click on the correct definition. As you do, you donate 10 grains of rice. Visit Freerice.com to see for yourself.
This reminded me of The Breast Cancer Site that has a setup where by visiting the site you are helping to eliminate Breast cancer. The site then links to sister-sites for children’s health, literacy, the rainforest and animal rescue. I am normally reluctant to pass this sort of thing along, but apparently these sites are legit, and if you can help any of these causes just by visiting the sites, then it’s worth sharing.
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